In 2024, elections were held in more than 70 countries making it a historic year in global politics. From the United States to Europe, India, and Pakistan, nearly 5 billion people voted to elect their leaders; these results have reshaped the world’s power dynamics and influenced the decision-making of global leaders on war and peace…
ContextThe chain reaction that got underway in the aftermath of the Hamas October 7, 2023 attack on Israel continues to unfold at a tremendous speed. The fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, a key ally in Iran’s axis of resistance against Israel, has triggered profound geopolitical changes in the Middle East, reshaping regional power dynamics. These…
A country without an effective governance mechanism cannot progress, compete and grow in the comity of nations. Pakistan, unfortunately is the victim of bad governance since its creation. In the context of Governance and Pakistan’s national interests, three points are being elaborated below to demonstrate the criticality and relation between governance and the national interest…
On the 500th day of his incarceration, former Prime Minister Imran Khan was resilient as he vowed to ‘fight’ on for years to come. He is under detention on the premise of unending case-logs that are conventional pieces of political victimization in our pseudo democratic-hybrid governance. That also marks the synopsis of prevailing political discord…
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Isaac Newton The current attitude of India and Pakistan towards each other is best expressed in a German phrase ‘Schadenfreude’ meaning one gets pleasure and satisfaction from the misery and suffering of the other. It is in India’s own long-term interest to downgrade its support…
According to the Gospel of John, Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, had died and been buried for four days when Jesus arrived in Bethany. Moved by the grief of Lazarus’s sisters, Jesus went to the tomb of Lazarus and instructed the people to remove the stone covering the entrance. Then, after praying to…
The Measuring OutThe Prophet said that faith includes faith in “the measuring out, the good of it and the evil of it.” The term measuring out (qadar) is frequently translated as “predestination,” and in some contexts, this is a good translation, but this will not help us much to understand the broad significance of the…
Calling Pakistan’s creation political is just one part of the entire story. It was a constant struggle from the day the idea was put into the minds and hearts of the people in the subcontinent to the day it was created. It was a promise to the generation of that time and the ones in…
From a very young age, we grasp the concept of seasons – spring, summer, autumn, and winter – along with basic weather phenomena like rain, clouds, storms, and earthquakes. It is with time we learn the deeper complexities of weather and its environmental impacts. We learn about how the months transition into seasons and how…
Pakistan is grappling with the devastating consequences of climate change, from unprecedented smog levels in Lahore to catastrophic floods that displace millions. While smog, with its record-breaking Air Quality Index (AQI) of 1,600 in Lahore has sparked a public health crisis, the gendered impacts of climate change become starkly apparent in flood-hit regions. Women bear…
